Brenda Penninx is to be the new vice president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences effective 1 September. She succeeds Marileen Dogterom, who became president of the Academy on 1 June. Brenda Penninx is professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC (VUmc location) and will combine this position with her work as vice president of the Academy.
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Brenda Penninx new vice president Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Brenda Penninx
Brenda Penninx is a multidisciplinary researcher. Her aim in both her research and her teaching is to better understand the consequences and treatment of psychiatric disorders. In her research, she integrates genetics and neuroimaging with clinical, psychological and social science approaches. She also has considerable administrative experience, for example as a member of the management teams for the department of Psychiatry and for the Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health research institutes, and as a lead investigator of large-scale, Dutch and international multi-site research consortiums.
Penninx became a member of the Academy in 2016. She chairs the Medical Sciences Council and is vice chairperson of the Medical, Biomedical and Health Sciences domain. As vice president, she intends to focus on encouraging and facilitating interdisciplinary cooperation in science, for example with respect to climate change and open science. She also plans to engage in discussions about stability and regularity in science, with Recognition and Rewards, science communication and science funding as important themes.
Het bestuur van de KNAW
Het bestuur van de KNAW bestaat uit: Marileen Dogterom (president), Ivo Giesen (vicepresident en algemeen secretaris), Brenda Penninx (vicepresident per 1 september 2022), en de leden Martin van Hees, Sjaak Neefjes, Ton van der Steen en Clara Mulder.